We started FastCompanyTV the first week of March this year. What a lot has happened in three months.
Here’s a rundown of the videos we’ve done. ScobleizerTV (S)=36 shows. WorkFastTV (WF)=1 show. Global NeighbourhoodsTV (GN)=14 shows. FastCompanyLive (FCL)=44 shows. Total of 95 shows. Yowza, with more on the way.
My favorite ones? The Tesla drive, the IBM moving the Atom, the Yosemite ones with Michael Adams, and the Rackspace ones (they went IPO right after we shot, so we have the last video before their quiet period, plus they were darn cool and their new headquarters are mondo big).
What did we do bad? 1. Didn’t get enough outside of the technology industry and didn’t get short versions done. 2. Also didn’t get transcripts done yet. 3. We had a rough beginning with Shel’s show that got a lot better over time. 4. Also, the cell phone videos aren’t integrated into the site the way they should be (I start those over on Qik, then move them over later, which totally doesn’t take advantage of the “live” ability of cell phone videos).
I’d love to know what you think, good or bad. The next three months are going to be just as wild. Starting next week as we go to Seattle to see lots of startups and more stuff at Microsoft, too.
By the way, thanks to Rocky Barbanica. He edited and produced much of this stuff and has dragged our two HD cameras lots of places. Michael Shick edited Global Neighbourhoods and I’m most grateful for that, too.
Also, thank you to our sponsors: Seagate, who sponsors ScobleizerTV, and SAP, who sponsors WorkFastTV. It’s expensive to buy HD cameras, buy gas for cars, travel around the world, and pay for bandwidth and other stuff. Not to mention our salaries. So, if you like what we do, please think of our sponsors next time you have a chance to choose them or someone else.
Finally, thank you to everyone who has been in front of our cameras. Without you, well, these shows wouldn’t be interesting.
Here’s a list of all of our shows, in the order they come up on the Web site.
JUNE:
Sliderocket. Intro to a very interesting new presentation package. (S)
Threshold. Intro to easiest-to-use wireless home automation system. (S)
Rick Rashid, Microsoft. He runs Microsoft Research. Enough said. (S)
Roy Levin, Microsoft. Smart guy who runs Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Research group. (S)
New show launches: WorkFastTV (first one goes up tomorrow) (WF)
New show to launch: PhotoCycle (the trailer/intro is already up — an astute ear will tell that’s Ansel Adams playing piano, the full show starts later in June). (PC)
Eepybird. The folks behind those Diet Coke and Mentos explosions. (GN)
Pamela Skillings. Author of “Escape from Corporate America” talks to my cell phone about your career. (FCL)
MAY:
Amazee: Demo of new project-management online service. (S)
Bill Watkins, Seagate. Bill, Seagate’s CEO talks to me about future of its business and asks “what recession?” (S)
Xerox CTO. Sophie Vandebroek talks to me about PARC and the post-copier world of Xerox research. (S)
TechCrunch Israel. I learn about Israel’s entrepreneurs from TechCrunch’s Roi Carthy. (S)
Plymedia. A cool online video company in Israel shows me their video overlay technology. (S)
Flixwagon. This Israeli company shows me how their technology lets you send live video from cell phones. (S)
Checkpoint. The biggest startup success from Israel. The CEO talks about security business. (S)
Itay Talgam, famous conductor. Part I. Part II. Part III. Gives a seminar showing management styles of orchestral conductors. (S)
IBM Research, Semantic Search. A look at research into semantic search at IBM’s New Almaden Research Center. (S)
HBMG. An Austin, TX, company shows me their security software which uses unique video compression. (S)
Semantinet. Interesting new social networking tool/search engine in Israel. (S)
Neopolitan Networks. San Antonio, TX, based company that supports many companies with their bandwidth needs. (S)
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The place where the Web was invented, but now they are turning on a new machine designed to discover the properties of Mass. A physicist shows us around and explains what we’re seeing. (S)
Microsoft Research (Translations). See the latest in language translation technology. (FCL)
New York Times. They demo and announce “Times Machine” which lets subscribers look at older issues. (FCL)
Microsoft Research (Surface). Andy Wilson invented many of the concepts behind the Surface computer that you use your hands to control and here he gives us a ton of info about what he’s building. (FCL)
FriendFeed (Designer). The designer behind FriendFeed and many Google products like Gmail and Google Reader, gives his philosophy on design. (FCL)
BluePulse. Social network for cell phones, CEO tells me latest. (FCL)
SlideRocket. PowerPoint competitor announces first version, coming in July. (FCL)
Google. Introduces FriendConnect. (FCL)
eMetrics Conference. Talking to experts about analytics of your Web site. (FCL)
PARC. A tour of the Palo Alto Research Center (subsidiary of Xerox) where the CEO shows me the first ethernet cable, which is still embedded in a wall there. (FCL)
Ansel Adams Gallery. Michael Adams, Ansel Adams son, takes us to Glacier Point in Yosemite where we interview him about Ansel’s famous photos. Another video shows him in front of the family business. (FCL)
Minggl. A new toolbar so you can join your friends from several social networks. (FCL)
Web 2.0 Expo. An afterhours tour through the exhibit hall with the guys from Zude. (FCL)
Moo Cards. The CEO of Moo shows us his latest cool business cards which are a hit with photographers and social media influentials. (FCL)
Good Vision. An interesting company in Israel that focuses on helping companies perform socially responsible processes. (FCL)
APRIL
Newstin. A service, located in Prague, that helps you find the news. (S)
IBM Research, Moving Atoms. This is my favorite experience. We move a single iron atom across a piece of copper. In the video they explain why they are doing this (to make smaller and smaller storage devices). (S) We also have a cell phone video we did in the lab that gives more info. (FCL)
Admob. A new advertising network that’s white hot aimed at getting ads onto mobile phones around the world. (S)
Austin City Limits. One of the best audio engineers in the world explains his work on this famous TV show. (S)
IBM’s New Almaden Research Center. This is where tons of stuff was invented. Hard drives. Blue lasers. And more. (S)
PerfTech. Messaging technology for cable companies in our San Antonio, Texas, visit. (S)
Kulabyte. Making HD video compress faster and better. (S)
Rackspace’s new headquarters. Get an exclusive look at Rackspace’s new headquarters in San Antonio, Texas (they announced an IPO a few weeks after we visited). (S)
Rackspace Radio Station. A look at Rackspace’s radio station in San Antonio, Texas. (S)
Rackspace/Leadership. Fun story about how Rackspace’s Chairman got everyone inside Rackspace to change their minds. (FCL)
Rackspace/office fight. There’s a fight inside Rackspace between dark and light offices. Which one would you pick? (FCL)
MySpace CTO. See the architecture behind this famous social networking site. (S)
Ben Segal. Mentor of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. (S)
Mahlo. Part I. Part II. Innovative search company that uses humans instead of algoritms to bring better results. (S)
Jim Long. NBC cameraman at of the US President. (GN)
KD Paine. Social Media Measurement guru. (GN)
Dell. Richard Binhammer talks with Shel Israel about social media and measuring results. (GN)
Radian 6. Part I. Part II. Measuring results and talking about Radian 6’s business and how it impacts social media. (GN)
Buzz Logic. Measuring influence in social media. (GN)
Disney. Look at Disney’s new virtual worlds. (GN)
Twitter. A talk with Twitter’s founders about its impact on the social media world. (GN)
GM. A talk with General Motors’ CEO where he admits he doesn’t write his own blog. (GN)
Cemaphor. They show off their new technology that syncs Google Calendars and email with Microsoft’s Outlook and Exchange. (FCL)
ZigTag. Demo of a new bookmarking service. (FCL)
AT&T. Demo of AT&T’s new browser. (FCL)
Shane Finley. Micro-wine innovator. (FCL)
PhotoCrank. CEO of PhotoCrank tells me why he started his company. (FCL)
DeLoach Winery. A bunch of geeks get together at a winery for an interesting conversation about business. (FCL)
FriendFeed. Part I. Part II. The founders of FriendFeed talk about their business (this is one of the first video interviews they gave, since then they’ve gotten much more popular and have been interviewed more often). (FCL)
MARCH
Google Docs. They announce offline docs. (S)
Newtek. The Tricaster is mondo cool way to do video production. Leo Laporte is using one on his new show.
Microsoft Research/Redmond. An exclusive tour around Microsoft’s new research building. (S)
MySpace. An interview with the VP of product development at this famous social network. Also got a separate interview with MySpace’s CEO. (S)
Scribd. A startup in San Francisco that makes sharing presentations and docs fun. (S)
John Kao. Longtime business professor and innovation guru plays some music and talks about innovation. (S) I also did a separate interview with him on my cell phone, which is here. (FCL)
Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope. We got the first video of Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope (it got 10 million unique visits in first week). (S)
Amazon. Web services evangelist gives us an update on the state of Amazon’s popular Web services. (S)
Seaworld. Shel gets wet in the name of finding out how Seaworld is using social media. (GN)
Intel. How the world’s biggest processor manufacturer is using social media to get the word out. (GN)
Sun Microsystems. How Sun is using social media to better use its internal knowledge. (GN)
Forrester. Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester’s analyst on social media, talks with Shel Israel. (GN)
Hugh Macleod. Famous artist that puts his drawings on backs of business cards up on his blog. (GN)
Microsoft. New Internet Explorer gets talked about in the hallways with executives from Microsoft. (FCL)
Monster. Cool new headphones get demoed. (FCL)
Lijit. Useful new search engine for bloggers demoed. (FCL)
Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes questions from an audience at SXSW. (FCL)
AMD and ATI. A look into the merger of these two companies with executives from each. (FCL)
Make Magazine. Meet the guy behind Make Magazine, a popular magazine for people who like building their own things. (FCL)
Intel Chip History. A look back at San Antonio’s tech history and part in designing Intel’s famous 8008 processor that kicked off a whole industry. (FCL)
Ear Bender. After an REM concert we met a music promoter who let us into his world. (FCL)
Hatchery. How does a company get started when it’s trying to disrupt something as big as the credit card industry? (FCL)
iLike. The founder of iLike told me at the SXSW conference that they had made a deal with R.E.M. (FCL)
Adaptive Blue. A useful toolbar for adding on search features gets demoed to me. (FCL)
Tesla. First ride in the production tesla with Elon Musk, chairman of the board. (FCL)
Annie Leibovitz. Famous photographer of famous people shows us around her exhibit. (FCL)
NASDAQ. Shows off its new technology which lets stock traders go back and check the price at a specific time. (FCL)
MFG.COM. Shows off a very cool app for tracking shipments. (FCL)
Larry Lessig. Gives his last talk on Free Culture at Stanford University. He’s a law professor there and is quite famous for starting up Creative Commons, among other things. (FCL)
Joi Ito. CEO of Creative Commons talks with us on the way to a meeting. (FCL)
Tim O’Reilly. Future of Advertising conversation after Davos’ World Economic Forum panel discussion. There was a second part of this conversation too. (FCL)
Rick Warren, Part I. Part II. Author of hugely popular “A Purpose Driven Life” and head of largest single church in USA has a fun chat with me at the World Economic Forum. (FCL)
Scobleizer 
Scoble, go to sleep, its the middle of the night! This can wait for the morning.
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Scoble, go to sleep, its the middle of the night! This can wait for the morning.
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Scoble how can you promote Segate? They hate America, why don’t you ever reveal that Seagate is a Cayman Island based company they do this to avoid paying taxes and putting money back in to the American economy. With a recession looming how can you honestly promote them?
Shame on you Robert Scoble, you don’t care about anything but your own pockets. Just like Seagate, what’s wrong with America? You.
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Scoble how can you promote Segate? They hate America, why don’t you ever reveal that Seagate is a Cayman Island based company they do this to avoid paying taxes and putting money back in to the American economy. With a recession looming how can you honestly promote them?
Shame on you Robert Scoble, you don’t care about anything but your own pockets. Just like Seagate, what’s wrong with America? You.
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Like a Dilbert cartoon, it amazed me how timely each presentation was to my experience. You hit me where I live, Robert. Thanks, Tim.
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Like a Dilbert cartoon, it amazed me how timely each presentation was to my experience. You hit me where I live, Robert. Thanks, Tim.
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Robert, this stuff is what I admire you for. I realize most of your readers want you to talk about specific devices and web services, but its applications and integration of multiple technologies that create magic in companies – and needs such much more exposure.
I have in past and hope to continue to profile some of your work on my innovation blog – New Florence, New Renaissance where I am always looking for innovative applications of technology from telemetry to mobility …
cheers
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Robert, this stuff is what I admire you for. I realize most of your readers want you to talk about specific devices and web services, but its applications and integration of multiple technologies that create magic in companies – and needs such much more exposure.
I have in past and hope to continue to profile some of your work on my innovation blog – New Florence, New Renaissance where I am always looking for innovative applications of technology from telemetry to mobility …
cheers
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You’re welcome. Thank you for the opportunity. The best is yet to come!
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You’re welcome. Thank you for the opportunity. The best is yet to come!
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Robert are you going to delete all my comments about Seagate being a Cayman Islands company to avoid paying their faire share of taxes in the USA. Are you embarrassed?
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Robert are you going to delete all my comments about Seagate being a Cayman Islands company to avoid paying their faire share of taxes in the USA. Are you embarrassed?
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Robert, why don’t you try out one (or more) of the “transcribe your phone messages” sites to get transcriptions more quickly? Sure, your videos are much longer than typical phone messages, and there are multiple speakers, but I would think those things shouldn’t matter that much. Plus, you could give some qualitative assessment of these emerging services. PhoneTag (formerly Simulscribe, http://www.phonetag.com/) or SpinVox (http://www.spinvox.com/) who apparently use “advanced technology”, or Datalyst (http://www.datalystcorp.com/services.html), an India-based data conversion shop.
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Robert, why don’t you try out one (or more) of the “transcribe your phone messages” sites to get transcriptions more quickly? Sure, your videos are much longer than typical phone messages, and there are multiple speakers, but I would think those things shouldn’t matter that much. Plus, you could give some qualitative assessment of these emerging services. PhoneTag (formerly Simulscribe, http://www.phonetag.com/) or SpinVox (http://www.spinvox.com/) who apparently use “advanced technology”, or Datalyst (http://www.datalystcorp.com/services.html), an India-based data conversion shop.
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Sam: the people I work with at Seagate are located near Santa Cruz, CA, and definitely pay a crapload of taxes and are great Americans. Plus, the money they give to me generates a crapload of taxes. A public company has a responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as legally possible. Locating overseas, or in areas of low tax rates, are a common trait among public companies. Just look at why so many companies are located in Ireland (or, even here in the States, why so many are located in Nevada).
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Sam: the people I work with at Seagate are located near Santa Cruz, CA, and definitely pay a crapload of taxes and are great Americans. Plus, the money they give to me generates a crapload of taxes. A public company has a responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as legally possible. Locating overseas, or in areas of low tax rates, are a common trait among public companies. Just look at why so many companies are located in Ireland (or, even here in the States, why so many are located in Nevada).
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Should pop into the people at Cisco System and if your in town in London we love to show you how we take the best from Microsoft, Cisco & Dell to make our company run.
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Should pop into the people at Cisco System and if your in town in London we love to show you how we take the best from Microsoft, Cisco & Dell to make our company run.
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Robert thank you for not deleting my comment again. I have more serious questions for you.
You say “A public company has a responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as legally possible” do you believe it is ok to use child labor in countries where that is legal to maximize profits?
Just because Seagate can incorporate overseas doesn’t mean it is right. Many investors hard working Americans and politicians frown upon this practice. I am surprised you will not comment honestly, Seagate is a sponsor so you can’t be honest any longer. The Scoble who used to be here is long since gone.
Ask the Santa Cruz local government they will tell you, I know them and this has been brought up many times. Ho hum you won’t, it would make your sponsor look bad.
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Robert thank you for not deleting my comment again. I have more serious questions for you.
You say “A public company has a responsibility to its shareholders to make as much money as legally possible” do you believe it is ok to use child labor in countries where that is legal to maximize profits?
Just because Seagate can incorporate overseas doesn’t mean it is right. Many investors hard working Americans and politicians frown upon this practice. I am surprised you will not comment honestly, Seagate is a sponsor so you can’t be honest any longer. The Scoble who used to be here is long since gone.
Ask the Santa Cruz local government they will tell you, I know them and this has been brought up many times. Ho hum you won’t, it would make your sponsor look bad.
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Sam: I don’t believe that’s OK, no. But there’s a HUGE difference between trying to avoid taxes and using child labor. Speeding on the freeway is against the law too, but if you try to say that when I go 80 I’m the same as, say, a murderer, I’ll look at you like someone who I no longer want to talk with.
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Sam: I don’t believe that’s OK, no. But there’s a HUGE difference between trying to avoid taxes and using child labor. Speeding on the freeway is against the law too, but if you try to say that when I go 80 I’m the same as, say, a murderer, I’ll look at you like someone who I no longer want to talk with.
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What I really miss is the possibility to download a video to watch it later. Apart from that you’ve done a great job.
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What I really miss is the possibility to download a video to watch it later. Apart from that you’ve done a great job.
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Scoble, you have some more to learn about mention
ing sponsors. You don’t say “buy from them, or someone else”. If I’m sponsoring you, I as sure as he’ll expect you to not suggest customers go somewhere else. I rather doubt Jeff Gordon would say “thanks to Pepsi. But you can buy Coke too. Or RC. Don’t really care”
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Scoble, you have some more to learn about mention
ing sponsors. You don’t say “buy from them, or someone else”. If I’m sponsoring you, I as sure as he’ll expect you to not suggest customers go somewhere else. I rather doubt Jeff Gordon would say “thanks to Pepsi. But you can buy Coke too. Or RC. Don’t really care”
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Robert, I have been a fan of your videos for a long time but I have to say I am disappointed to learn Seagate is using a tax loophole to deprive the United States of the tax money to help Americans. Segate incorporating in the Cayman Islands is sad sad sad. You can defend Segate until the cows come home about their need to maximize profits but at the end of the day companies putting profits before doing the right thing is morally repressible. I’m sad you are associated with Seagate. I will not buy a Segate drive and you don’t have the courage leave my comment on your web site.
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Robert, I have been a fan of your videos for a long time but I have to say I am disappointed to learn Seagate is using a tax loophole to deprive the United States of the tax money to help Americans. Segate incorporating in the Cayman Islands is sad sad sad. You can defend Segate until the cows come home about their need to maximize profits but at the end of the day companies putting profits before doing the right thing is morally repressible. I’m sad you are associated with Seagate. I will not buy a Segate drive and you don’t have the courage leave my comment on your web site.
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Your chronological overview of the video interviews you’ve done is very welcome – it’s hard to quickly skim through them in the site’s current format, and a more text based list was handy. Also shows how much you’ve done!
I think a lot of people would give good money to be in the company of the people you’ved interviewed.
Can I recommend that you make it possible for users to suggest questions for the HD interviews (the non qik ones)? It can be so annoying when people think of a question that would be great to ask the interviewee, but you don’t hear it in the interview.
Keep up with the interviews, and the feedback, it’s appreciated!
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Your chronological overview of the video interviews you’ve done is very welcome – it’s hard to quickly skim through them in the site’s current format, and a more text based list was handy. Also shows how much you’ve done!
I think a lot of people would give good money to be in the company of the people you’ved interviewed.
Can I recommend that you make it possible for users to suggest questions for the HD interviews (the non qik ones)? It can be so annoying when people think of a question that would be great to ask the interviewee, but you don’t hear it in the interview.
Keep up with the interviews, and the feedback, it’s appreciated!
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@Johnny You can download the video using Realplayer by the way. Or other methods.
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@Johnny You can download the video using Realplayer by the way. Or other methods.
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Is Scoble even relevent anymore? He uses sponsors that have questionable ethics. His videos drone on for hours with poor quality. His written word is more of the style: “Click Here”. I visit about every 6 months and I find that I get less content each time.
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Is Scoble even relevent anymore? He uses sponsors that have questionable ethics. His videos drone on for hours with poor quality. His written word is more of the style: “Click Here”. I visit about every 6 months and I find that I get less content each time.
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You do videos?
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You do videos?
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Robert, I absolutely love what you’re trying to do here. I find the content fascinating. I also really appreciate that your site is one of the few where I can find all of this gatherer and indexed.
I think you ought to see your site a little differently. While videos taken from your cell phone are interesting, they pollute the content of the video itself with their poor quality. Just because you can shoot grainy, difficult to hear videos with your phone doesn’t mean you should. The production values in these videos are way below par and the poor quality of the video and audio is distracting. The same goes for “Blair Witch Project”-quality handheld shots. Shaking and trembling frames are not the subject of your videos, are they?
Instead of finding the most unique way to film these videos, why not find the best? Leave the amateur YouTube videos to the amateurs. Do these the right way instead.
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Robert, I absolutely love what you’re trying to do here. I find the content fascinating. I also really appreciate that your site is one of the few where I can find all of this gatherer and indexed.
I think you ought to see your site a little differently. While videos taken from your cell phone are interesting, they pollute the content of the video itself with their poor quality. Just because you can shoot grainy, difficult to hear videos with your phone doesn’t mean you should. The production values in these videos are way below par and the poor quality of the video and audio is distracting. The same goes for “Blair Witch Project”-quality handheld shots. Shaking and trembling frames are not the subject of your videos, are they?
Instead of finding the most unique way to film these videos, why not find the best? Leave the amateur YouTube videos to the amateurs. Do these the right way instead.
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As usual, lots of great material to look at! Good job, Robert!
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As usual, lots of great material to look at! Good job, Robert!
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“Sam:I don’t believe it’s OK,no”
So, why don’t you drop them as a sponsor? Or is the money more important to you than principle?
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“Sam:I don’t believe it’s OK,no”
So, why don’t you drop them as a sponsor? Or is the money more important to you than principle?
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Steve: what principle? I already told you that I don’t think it’s a big deal to try to get your shareholders the best possible deal that you can get.
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Steve: what principle? I already told you that I don’t think it’s a big deal to try to get your shareholders the best possible deal that you can get.
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whatever it takes, huh? That was Enron’s goal, too.
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whatever it takes, huh? That was Enron’s goal, too.
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Robert you have no ethics or morals if you honestly believe “it’s a big deal to try to get your shareholders the best possible deal that you can get”. People matter Robert, Seagate is a tax crook. They incorporate in the Cayman Islands and use child labor in China to manufacturer their drives. You think they pay the Chinese living wages? In your world Robert this is the best deal, I’ll stick with better companies and I will unfollow you on Twitter it makes me feel ashamed to once think you cared.
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Robert you have no ethics or morals if you honestly believe “it’s a big deal to try to get your shareholders the best possible deal that you can get”. People matter Robert, Seagate is a tax crook. They incorporate in the Cayman Islands and use child labor in China to manufacturer their drives. You think they pay the Chinese living wages? In your world Robert this is the best deal, I’ll stick with better companies and I will unfollow you on Twitter it makes me feel ashamed to once think you cared.
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NotSteve: they don’t use child labor. I’m going to their Chinese plants this year. Please do unfollow me. Thanks. You aren’t even willing to put your real name here, which tells me volumes about what kind of person you are.
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NotSteve: they don’t use child labor. I’m going to their Chinese plants this year. Please do unfollow me. Thanks. You aren’t even willing to put your real name here, which tells me volumes about what kind of person you are.
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It’s an extraordinary impressive oeuvre — it would take the average person months to peruse it all, and it has a very great range of stuff. I agree that it is too much inside the techosphere and the Valley.
I’m puzzled by the drive to get transcripts. I do this sort of thing for a living, and boy, is it hard work and the hits you get don’t seem to justify the expenditure of your client. People want it, of course, but you wonder — wasn’t the whole point of this exercise to get people to watch TV, which delivers the news and impressions more efficiently live and in the round?
Maybe to save on the cost and strain of transcript bankruptcy, you could put up a voter on each segment, asking readers/watchers if they even want a transcript — and then only for really popular ones, would you go to the bother.
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It’s an extraordinary impressive oeuvre — it would take the average person months to peruse it all, and it has a very great range of stuff. I agree that it is too much inside the techosphere and the Valley.
I’m puzzled by the drive to get transcripts. I do this sort of thing for a living, and boy, is it hard work and the hits you get don’t seem to justify the expenditure of your client. People want it, of course, but you wonder — wasn’t the whole point of this exercise to get people to watch TV, which delivers the news and impressions more efficiently live and in the round?
Maybe to save on the cost and strain of transcript bankruptcy, you could put up a voter on each segment, asking readers/watchers if they even want a transcript — and then only for really popular ones, would you go to the bother.
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